I was offline last night and didn't see it until now. It was downweighted, I assume as yet-another-Twitter-drama story, but I agree this was above the line for significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) so I've belatedly turned off the downweight and re-upped it.

p.s. @dang doesn't do anything - I only saw your comment by accident. If anyone wants to ask or tell us something, the reliable way is hn@ycombinator.com.

Probably a combination of:

Users flagging the post

Domain-based downweight (dang has mentioned it exists for Wikipedia for example, no idea if it’s automated or manual)

Posts with bad comments:upvote ratio get downweighted (IIRC dang calls them overheated discursions?)

And FWIW it’s on the front page now

[EDIT] no it’s not. I was on the new page not front haha. Probably people sick of hearing about Twitter and flagging then.

I didn’t think about it until you mentioned it but really, why would the hacker type be interesting in all the happenings of $MEGACORP? Literally any small blurb about someone’s hobby would be more interesting. It would be nice to be able to personally filter by topic/keyword.

people just love controversy, even those who say they don't. Look at the many answers and engagement you can have comparing and talking about JS frameworks. Musk and apple is the same, makes a great ammount of engagement.

It's also just breaking, past 10pm on the west coast of the US, when we all should be in bed.

That's morning in Europe and afternoon in Oceania, so there's still plenty of people on the site.